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From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Edward Kuekes. Two soldiers are carrying a fallen soldier on a stretcher across a landscape [Korea?]. One says, "Wonder if he voted?" The second says, "No, he wasn't old enough." The cartoon...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elderly man with a beard looks out from the clouds and pours water from a watering can onto the landscape. He wears a top hat with a weather vane on top. In the background of...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A soldier in a fox hole or trench is watching a dove fly across a war torn landscape labeled “Lebanon” carrying a “Cease fire” message in its beak. The soldier has his fingers...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Richard Nixon and Mexican president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz stand side by side in a desert landscape with the Rio Grande in the background, arms over each other's shoulder. They are...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Peterson. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser repairs a statue of himself with tape from a first aid kit. One arm of the statue has broken off and is in the sand nearby. The inscription...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bear with a hammer and sickle symble is in the lower foreground of the cartoon, with the background landscape labeled, "Sino-Soviet dispute." Above the bear in the air is a...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam, carrying a briefcase labeled "Paris talks," stands on a straight roadway in a bare landscape. The roadway is labeled "Concessions," and blocking the roadway in the...

Oral history.; Interview conducted February 5, 11, and 12, 2003 with Dan M. Lee. The Honorable Dan M. Lee was born in Petal, Mississippi, on April 19, 1926. He graduated from Petal High School in April 1944. Justice Lee is a World War II...

Oral history.; Born in 1947, Dr. Story was graduated from Mississippi Valley State University in 1969 where he earned a B.S.; he earned an M.Ed. from Delta State University. During his varied career he has been a sharecropper, a public school...

Oral history; Fredrick Harrison Cook III was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on April 15, 1952. During his senior year at The University of Southern Mississippi, Mr. Cook was drafted by the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League. He...

Oral history.; Interview conducted March 1, April 5, June 6, and June 9, 2003. James Lawton Robertson was born in Greenwood, Mississippi in July of 1940. He attended the University of Mississippi where he earned his bachelor's degree in history. ...

Oral history.; Mr. Jeremiah O'Keefe was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 12, 1923. Mr. O'Keefe attended Sacred Heart Academy for high school. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his wings in the U.S. Marine Corps in May, 1943. Having...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...

Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...

Oral history.; Interview conducted November 9, 2012 at the Bordeaux reisdence. Norma Sanders Bordeaux was born to Hanson E. Sanders and Ethelyn Lou Milton Sanders in Birmingham, Alabama during the Great Depression. The family moved often as...